Family Health Care

We at Family Health Care, a department of Kalispell Regional Medical Center, live by a straightforward philosophy that keeps us on target for providing the very best in medical care for all ages. We would like to share that philosophy with you:

Family Health Care offers complete medical care for you and every member of your family. We are committed to promoting health and wellness and providing high quality, cost-effective, compassionate health care to all people regardless of age, race, color, creed or disability.

Family Health Care fosters a cooperative and caring work environment, with attention to balancing personal, family and professional fulfillment.

Family Health Care maintains its financial health and continues its clinic growth through the use of efficient and effective management principles and practices.

About Family Health Care

Family Health Care is a department of Kalispell Regional Medical Center. Medicare has determined that Family Health Care is a Provider-Based Clinic, a Medicare status designation awarded to clinics meeting certain criteria.

We provide primary care for patients of all ages. Our offices are located in Kalispell at the Family Health Care offices at 1287 Burns Way, and in Columbia Falls at the Columbia Falls Clinic offices at 1850 Ninth Street West.

Insurances Accepted

Our Services

Family Health Care provides all clinical services needed for rapid and accurate diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and injuries usually seen in the office. The following is a list of the services you will find at our clinic. Click on each service to learn more:

Urgent Care

For times when you need immediate medical attention, our Urgent Care service is there for you. Lab and X-ray services are available in our Urgent Care setting. No appointment is required.

Radiology (X-Ray) Services

General X-ray examinations also are available in the clinic and are conducted by registered radiology technicians. All X-rays are interpreted by a board-certified radiologist. X-ray results may take up to one week to be reported and will be reported by telephone to the patient.

Ultrasound

Ultrasound is used to aid in the diagnosis of a wide variety of medical conditions. Family Health Care has new, high-quality, state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment. Ultrasound examinations include:

Bone Densitometry

Family Health Care offers bone density screening. Bone mineral densitometry is a non-invasive test to detect low bone density, and to help with early diagnosis of osteopenia (thin bones) and osteoporosis (very weak bones).

We offer bone density testing using the DEXA (dual energy X-ray absorptiometry) protocol. DEXA is considered the “gold standard” and is the most widely used measurement modality. These instruments quantify bone mineral of the lumbar spine, forearm and hip.

Cardiology Services

Routine EKGs are performed on site by nurses and trained medical assistants. Stress tests also are conducted in the office by your family physician. Cardiology services available in the clinic include:

Sports Medicine

Family Health Care provides immediate attention to the illnesses and injuries of sports enthusiasts, whether they be high-performance athletes or “weekend warriors.”

Sports Physicals

Family Health Care offers pre-season physical exams that meet the requirements for youth recreation and school sports participation. In the event an appointment is unavailable to meet your needs, a sports physical may be performed in our urgent care clinic on a space-available basis.

Special Procedures

Although we do coordinate care with specialists outside our clinic when appropriate, Family Health Care can take care of many of the specialty procedures you may need, right here in our offices:

Tympanometry

Casting of common fractures

Removal and treatment of skin cancers

Vasectomy

Cryosurgery

Stress Echo

Pulmonary function testing

Women's Health

Our office provides a full range of services for women of all ages needing gynecological care. Services include all forms of contraception, hormone replacement, pap smears and breast exams. Health education counseling on an individual basis always is available.

Telephone Nurse

A telephone nurse is available to answer your basic medical questions and to help with prescription refills during office hours. To talk with the telephone nurse, please call our main clinic number at (406) 752-8120. When you hear the menu options, press “2.”

Prescription Refills

Family Health Care always is available to authorize prescription renewals. The best way to handle renewals is through your pharmacist. Please have your prescription number handy and, if possible, plan 48 hours in advance to make sure you do not run out while the prescription is being renewed and filled. Should you have any questions about your prescriptions, please feel free to call the office.

DOT Physical Exams for CDL

Family Health Care has physicians certified by the national registry to perform DOT Physicals.
It is mandated by federal guidelines that all commercial drivers pass the Department of Transportation physical exam. The purpose of this test is to check whether an applicant is physically capable of driving safely now and in the near future. Passing the exam successfully usually means you have 24 month before you need to do it again, unless you have some health issue which might become worse in the future, in which case the you’ll have to take the exam sooner.

Medical Home Recognition

Family Health Care is one of six primary care clinics of Kalispell Regional Healthcare that received national recognition in 2013 from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for their Patient-Centered Medical Home programs.

See our Medical Home page to learn more about how this improves access and efficiency in your care.